Role of Women
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Is your favourite character in a novel always the protagonist?
This question was posed to me the other day and got me thinking. Even in my own writing my favourite character isn’t always the protagonist. In ‘Riduna‘ for example, my first novel ~ historical fiction set on the island of Alderney in the Victorian era, Harriet, the protagonist, is key to every part of the…
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Friends reflect on the changing roles of their loved ones in WW1
To commemorate the centenary of WW1 I am sharing with you some extracts of my second novel, Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home’ which takes the Newton family, who live in Woolston, Southampton, through The Great War. In this piece, Harriet, the matriarch of the series, has a surprise visitor, Edward, with whom she grew up on the…
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A Modern Day Lady Pioneer in Aviation ~ Tracey Curtis Taylor ~ Cape Town to Goodwood Winter 2013
An article in the newspaper over the weekend caught my eye of Tracey Curtis Taylor who flew a 1940’s bi-plane from Cape Town to Cairo. She had been inspired by the record breaking flight of Mary Heath back in 1928; nearly 90 years on and yet the feat seems equally astonishing. BACKGROUND Curtis Taylor began…